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In an effort to expand our outreach to the
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from time to time deal with critical subjects as
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JANUARY 2015
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 Dear
Friends:
This month we begin the second half of
the 2010s.
How far have we come as a Messianic
community in this decade?
Speaking for myself, and for Outreach
Israel and TNN Online, I know that we
have come quite a long way—with the
array of topics addressed and
publications we have released. Still,
the very nature of what we do as a
Messianic educational ministry, is
looking out for those topics and issues
which have still yet to be addressed for
the people within our faith community. I
think that significant progress was made
between 2010-2014, but more definitely
lies in store for 2015-2020.
Unlike my anticipation of the new decade
starting in 2010, the start of 2015
almost caught me unaware. Perhaps it was
due to the lengthy projects completed in
2014, with more lengthy projects for the
next year… Alas, one of the things that
got my attention this past month,
regarding the passage of time, was
putting together eight paperback books
for the
back issues of
Outreach Israel News from
2007-2014 (soon to be formally
released). In the process of copying and
pasting from individual files, I
certainly got to review the course of
our ministry over the past eight years
of service.
We have come a long way
in the scope and breadth of what the
Lord has given us to do, but there has
also been a consistency of the message.
We have certainly had to be adaptable
and flexible to circumstances, and we
have had to explain different positions
and views in more detail. But,
fine-tuning one’s beliefs is what a life
of faith is all about!
2015, much like 2014 before it, is going
to have some year-long commitments, with
the new
1 Corinthians
Bible study, as well as the
ongoing work on the
Messianic Sabbath
Helper—both
of which I will be sure to be posting
regular updates on! There are some other
research and writing projects beyond
this, which we will announce as they are
firmed up.
As I simply said on Facebook to start
this New Year,
I (JKM) want to wish each of you a Happy
New Year 2015! We are now half-way
through the 2010s, I have been living
back in Dallas, TX for a full two years,
and
I am in my mid-thirties! Much has
happened with Outreach Israel and TNN
Online in this decade, and we are most
enthusiastic and anticipatory as to what
the Lord has on the horizon for all of
us!
Until next month…
J.K. McKee
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posted 23 January, 2015 to
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Not even two weeks of reading
for the
Messianic Sabbath
Helper, and I
(JKM) am personally
already being challenged with
how much I have overlooked
regarding the significance of
Shabbat! An excellent
resource that I recommend
perusal of, is The Sabbath
by Samuel H. Dresner, widely
reflecting a Conservative Jewish
approach. In 1970, he made many
observations of how American
Jews--who had religious, and
often financial freedom--were
dismissing the joys and
separation brought by
Shabbat.
Many people in today's Messianic
community treat the seventh-day
Sabbath as a kind of "Saturday
church" more than as a time to
rest from labor, focus on God
and one's brethren, and enter
into something special.
Something is lost by not keeping
Shabbat and sanctifying
the day. (I suspect
that even with its limitations,
those Christians of yesteryear
who kept a strict "Sunday
Sabbath" got more out of it,
than many Messianics who keep
Shabbat.)
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posted 22 January, 2015 to
Facebook
Today, we are featuring the TNN
Press resource
The New
Testament Validates Torah,
which was released in paperback
and eBook three years ago. This
432-page publication very much
functions as my (JKM's)
"flagship" book--the one book I
recommend people read, to get a
feel for how I think and reason
through issues. There is still
nothing like it in the Messianic
world, as it examines, in
detail, many Scripture passages
from the Apostolic Writings
frequently claimed to abolish
God's Torah in the
post-resurrection era.
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posted 21 January, 2015 to
Facebook
This evening we will be
completing our examination of
Acts 18:1-18, "Paul's Visit to
Corinth." This important
background study is
only of an abbreviated
record by Luke, of how the
community of Messiah followers
in Corinth became established,
with much more to be deduced in
1&2 Corinthians. Yet Acts
18:1-18 does highlight critical
events. Of particular
significance is the Believers'
expulsion from the local
synagogue, and establishing a
rival assembly right next door
to it!
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posted 20 January, 2015 to
Facebook
I (JKM) have effectively just
finished the first full week of
work on the Messianic
Sabbath Helper. I have been
mostly reading, as well as
coordinating the material that
will go into this publication,
and various topics and
sub-topics that need to be
addressed. While this
publication will follow a format
similar to the preceding
Messianic Kosher Helper,
there is much less "tension," as
it were, with the topic of
Sabbath rest. Very few people I
have ever encountered, think
that a Sabbath-principle is
something evil and immoral. Yet,
there are many details and
viewpoints that need to be
catalogued and evaluated.
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posted 19 January, 2015 to
Facebook
During the Chanukah
season around a month ago, I
(JKM) read, and preceded to
comment, on a Hebrew Roots blog
that quoted an entry from the
Jewish Encyclopedia claiming
that Chanukah had pagan
origins. One of the sources
referenced
in the article was from Julius
Wellhausen, one of the main
formulators of the JEDP
documentary hypothesis--which
posits that the Torah is not a
product of Mosaic origin in the
Fifteenth or Thirteenth Century
B.C.E., but rather is a
compilation of disparate sources
following the Babylonian exile
in the Sixth Century B.C.E.
I challenged the reference to
Wellhausen, as evidence that
claiming Chanukah was
pagan was founded on liberal
scholarship from the late
Nineteenth Century. At least one
dissenter claimed that if there
were not some truth in this, why
was it even mentioned. I
retorted back with noting how
the Jewish Encyclopedia was a
liberal resource, widely a
product of Reform Jewish
scholarship.
This past week I have been
conducting some of the first
major note-taking for the
Messianic Sabbath Helper.
Believe it or not: just about
all theological dictionaries and
encyclopedias have to mention
proposals that the seventh-day
Sabbath is thought by some to
have been adapted by Israel from
Canaanite or some other Ancient
Near Eastern practice. Did a day
of rest from labor, or a day
where no action was performed
(to appease the gods)--become
Shabbat? Some liberals
think so. Others, like myself,
agree that Shabbat is a
memorial of Creation (Genesis
2:2-3) and the Exodus (Exodus
20:8-10a).
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posted 16 January, 2015 to
Facebook
One of the things that today's
Messianic movement is suffering
from, is that we are in a
theological "catch up" mode at
the moment. We have emerged into
a faith community with a dual
mission: seeing Jewish people
brought to Messiah faith, and
non-Jewish Believers embrace the
Jewishness of Jesus and a Torah
foundation. Yet, there are many
issues, theological and
spiritual, facing us. Some of
the theological topics for
sure--which are discussed in
Jewish and Christian
scholarship--cannot really be
discussed by Messianics today.
We are now in the second half,
of the second decade, of the
Twenty-First Century. Where will
we be in 2020?
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posted 15 January, 2015 to
Facebook
Why are we going to be spending
the better part of a year
researching and cataloguing
information on the seventh-day
Sabbath/Shabbat? This
is a topic which for some time
has required "the royal
treatment." Shabbat is
also a topic which many, both
Jewish and Christian alike, are
totally primed to "get." The
need for the people of God to
rest as commanded by Scripture,
is most imperative. Messianics
need to not think that
they are somehow "alone" in
their conviction that a Sabbath
rest is an important practice to
be physically observed every
week.
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posted 14 January, 2015 to
Facebook
Today we begin a new Bible
study, anticipated to be a year
long or so, on Paul's letter of
1 Corinthians. An important part
of understanding the background
behind the Corinthian
correspondence, is seen from
Paul's visit to Corinth in Acts
18:1-18. This passage actually
records an eighteen-month block
of time during Paul's ministry
in Corinth, and provides key
clues so as to the complexity of
the people of the city, the
Jewish presence in this city,
and some of the issues that will
arise in 1 Corinthians.
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posted 13 January, 2015 to
Facebook
It is ironic, but a huge amount
of reading--work--has to go into
a publication intended to
address rest. These are some of
the main resources we will be
consulting for Part I of the
Messianic Sabbath Helper,
"The Significance of Shabbat."
In addition to this, are the
many encyclopedia entries and
articles to be considered--as
well as a wide array of
distinctly Messianic writings.
Interestingly enough, Part I
will take more concentrated
effort to see put
together--although Part II, "A
Theology of Shabbat," will be
longer, as it will address
various Bible passages from the
Tanach and Apostolic Scriptures.
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posted 12 January, 2015 to
Facebook
The first full week of 2015 was
a definite period of getting
some critical busywork
completed, in preparation for
the two major projects I will be
coordinating: the Messianic
Sabbath Helper and the 1
Corinthians Bible study. A huge
amount of prep work goes into
these, in terms of reading,
research, note taking, and then
the actual writing. And, along
with these two assignments for
2015, one inevitably has other
open files for projects
extending into 2016 and beyond.
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posted 01 January, 2015 to
Facebook
I (JKM) want to wish each of you
a Happy New Year 2015! We are
now half-way through the 2010s,
I have been living back in
Dallas, TX for a full two years,
and I am in my
mid-thirties! Much has happened
with Outreach Israel and TNN
Online in this decade, and we
are most enthusiastic and
anticipatory as to what the Lord
has on the horizon for all of
us!
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